Redirect does not work

Question

I tried to redirect a broken link onto my site by redirect :

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
RewriteRule ^domian_registration\.html$ "http\:\/\/mysite\.com\/domain_registration\.html" [R=301,L]

But it responds with error (404 Not Found) and redirects to following URL:

mysite/home/[Cpanel user]/public_html/domain_registration.html

What's the problem?

Answer 1

1. Why do you need RewriteCond here that does absolutely nothing?

2. Target URL should be just normal link -- no need to escape all non-alphabet characters like you do \:\/\/.

3. That directive requires mod_rewrite module to be enabled on your server.

That's how your rule should look like:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^domian_registration\.html$ http://mysite.com/domain_registration.html [R=301,L]

OR as simple as (although including full domain name in URL is recommended):

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^domian_registration\.html$ domain_registration.html [R=301,L]

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If you do not have mod_rewrite enabled on your site, you can use this directive instead:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/domian_registration\.html$ http://mysite.com/domain_registration.html

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UPDATE: This is an answer for your additional question:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=(\d+)
RewriteRule ^maghalat\.php/isfahan_articles(\d+)\.html$ /articles/isfahan_articles$1.html? [R=301,L]

This rule will redirect /maghalat.php/isfahan_articles123.html?id=123 to /articles/isfahan_articles123.html.

Considering that source and target URLs are very similar .. and the fact that id in html file name is the same as id= parameter in query string, we can ignore the query string thus making the rule a bit simpler (no real need for RewriteCond line):

RewriteRule ^maghalat\.php/isfahan_articles(\d+)\.html$ /articles/isfahan_articles$1.html? [R=301,L]